What is VESA?

VESA is the Video Electronics Standards Association; an international non-profit organization that supports and sets industry-wide standards for the PC, workstation, and consumer electronics industries, ensuring interoperability. VESA is governed by a Board of Directors, representing a voting membership of around 165 corporate members, including hardware, software, PC, display, and component manufacturers, cable and telephone companies, and service providers. VESA provides a forum to develop, promote, and support open standards for the display industry, and is one of the leading standards organizations in the electronics industry.

VESA was founded in the late 1980's by NEC Home Electronics and eight other video display adapter manufacturers to set a standard for SVGA resolution video displays. Since then, VESA has issued a number of standards for the display industry, including 'VESA mounts', a flat-mounting display interface, a DisplayPort Standard, and a Standard on Television Panels for LCD televisions.

The VESA Standards process is really quite in-depth to ensure only the highest quality Standards are published. The steps to publish a standard in VESA are:

Among other things, VESA strives to create unbiased standards, emphasize service and cooperation, and promote fairness and integrity in the industry. VESA hopes, in the future, to be one of the leading worldwide standards organizations, and to be an internationally recognized voice in the video electronics industry.